"Shrek" better than "Sex" with 43 million at the box office

ANGELES - Movie audiences show more appetite for Shrek for sex on the weekend of Memorial Day. DreamWorks Animation to LOS "Shrek Forever After" remained the No. 1 movie for a second weekend with $ 43,300,000 from Friday to Sunday. The film raised a total of 133.1 million domestic. It is easily tops the Warner Bros. following "Sex and the City 2", the No. 2 with 32.1 million debut, which came in significantly below the $ 56.8 million on the first weekend was $ weekend by his predecessors two years. With $ 14.2 million haul in its first day Thursday, "Sex and the City 2" brought in $ 46,300,000. Debuts at number three with $ 30,200,000 was Disney's action tale "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time." Even with bad ratings and an availability of nearly half past three for "Sex and the City 2," Hollywood had many expected after the opening at # 1. But the fourth "Shrek" installment, opening substantially below the previous action, strong place in its second weekend. Family Pack crowd still for the festival, which billed as the big screen with the voice stars Mike Myers last story, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy and Antonio Banderas. Women represented 90 percent of the audience for "Sex and the City 2" which brings together the stars of the HBO series - Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon - an adventure in Abu Dhabi. Dan Fellman, head of distribution for Warner Bros., said that "Sex and the City has two" close to 53 million U.S. dollars are counted in the first five days after Memorial Day receipts. Although this is less than three days of the opening weekend for the first movie, the sequel could go to the total $ 152.6 million of domestic "Sex and the City" when it fits comfortably to respond in the coming weekend, "said Fellman. "Numbers are numbers, but it's a little unfair, in the direction of the trouble in River City go until we see the opportunity, as we have legs," said Fellman. "We could not end there. It's just a different pattern than the first. "DreamWorks looks forward to a long life to" Forever After "Shrek" to ask the fourth installment of the franchise, the critics when the public has finally had tired of large, green ogre. "We always have the fourth entry in especially that we were known in a way unprecedented territory, "said Anne Globe, head of marketing at DreamWorks." There really was no plan to follow the game. "Box Office" Forever After "Shrek" 39 percent of his first weekend slipped compared to 56 percent in the second weekend for the third "Shrek" flick. The modest results, "Prince of Persia" series have the potential of film in doubt. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, whose films "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "National Treasure" series has, for the treatment franchise seen similar to "Prince of been Persia." Set in the old days, stars of the movie Jake Gyllenhaal as a foster son King accused of treason and murder, to reverse a magic dagger, can get a lot of time.